[Open-access] HIFA - these people want OA and they want it now

Tue Jan 31 12:55:59 UTC 2012

Hi All

Just to make you aware of a community that we should very much engage in
our efforts, the HIFA forum is filled with doctors and HCPs from the
developing world who want access to healthcare information. There have been
several frustrations vocalised about the limitations of HINARI and they are
very pro OA. Several prominent members spoke at the BMC Open Access Africa
conference and I think it would be worth contacting them to join our
discussions and be a champion of the developing world HCP community
scholarly poor in the same way that Tom, Gilles and Graham can act as
champions for specific disease information.

There are specific ways we could link the forum to Open Research Reports
and I'll send a separate email about that to the open-science list later.

Jenny

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Babatunde Awokola <tundeawokola at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Subject: [HIFA2015] HINARI: How access to scientific literature is
improving the livelihoods of communities around the world (3)
To: HIFA2015 - Healthcare Information For All by 2015 <HIFA2015 at dgroups.org>

 Thank you for your relentless efforts, Dr Ana. I am persuaded that we
should keep pushing...one day, "the wall will fall". Evidenced based
medicine can only be a reality if a source like HINARI is made available to
ALL!!

HIFA2015 profile: Babatunde Awokola is a Specialist Registrar in Family
Medicine at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. He is
also an informatician with bias for electronic medical records and
telemedicine. tundeawokola AT yahoo.com

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From: "Joseph Ana" jneana AT yahoo.co.uk
To: "HIFA2015 - Healthcare Information For All by 2015" HIFA2015 at dgroups.org
Subject: [HIFA2015] HINARI: How access to scientific literature is
improving the livelihoods of communities around the world (2)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:20:59 +0000 (GMT)

Congratulations to HINARI, OARE & AGORA.

I sent a message yesterday to encourage HINARI to extend its permissions to
private health facilities. I am not sure whether HINARI permits access for
_public_ health facilities (Hospitals & Clinics) unless it changed its
policy recently. The State Ministry of Health applied to register the
Centre for Clinical Governance, General Hospital, Calabar, Cross River
State, Nigeria but the application failed in 2005 and 2006. The hospital is
the flagship hospital for Cross River State with a population of three
million people.
I wolud be very glad to know if the policy has changed.

The success of HINARI reflects the tip of the iceberg in the spectrum of
possibilities. If they can extend their limits to cover health facilities
and not just institutions, very much more mortality and morbidity will be
prevented.

Joseph Ana

HIFA2015 profile: Joseph Ana is the Medical Adviser of the Calabar Women &
Children Hospital, Calabar and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health
Sciences Cross River University of Technology. He is a member of the
Medical & Dental Council of Nigeria and the Editor & Mentor of BMJ West
Africa edition. He was invited to be the Commissioner for Health of Cross
River State of Nigeria from July 2004-June 2008 from his post as a GP
Principal and Trainer in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, UK. He originally
trained as a medical doctor in Nigeria, graduating in 1978 before
proceeding to the United Kingdom to specialise in surgery and urology. He
further qualified as a GP in the UK. A Fellow of the Royal Society of
Public Health, he is a pioneer Trustee-Director of the NMF (Nigerian
Medical Forum) which took the BMJ to West Africa in 1996. He is
particularly interested in setting up and sustaining continuing
professional development for doctors, nurses and other health workers in
West Africa, especially for those in isolated rural hospitals through
health information dissemination. With the assistance of The BMJ, he
established the first, model, BMJWA Health Information Resource Centre in
Calabar, Nigeria in 2003 to provide subsidised electronic and paper health
information to colleagues. As Commissioner for Health he introduced
Clinical Governance concepts to Nigeria and set up the first Centre for
Clinical Governance, Research and Training (CCGRT) in Calabar that
functioned as the Health Think Tank in Cross River State, thereby
eliminating the strictures imposed on health care delivery by the routines
of the civil service. In 2007 the centre became the Department of Clinical
Governance, Servicom & e-health of the State Ministry of Health.
www.bmjwestafrica.com jneana AT yahoo.co.uk

Click here <http://dgroups.org/?1672zb8f> to read online.

HIFA2015: Healthcare Information For All by 2015: www.hifa2015.org

HIFA2015 requires financial support for 2012. Please contact the
coordinator: neil.pakenham-walsh at ghi-net.org

Thanks to our 2011 financial supporters: British Medical Association, CABI,
Global HELP, International Child Health Group (Royal College of Paediatrics
and Child Health), Joanna Briggs Institute, Network for Information and
Digital Access, Public Library of Science, Rockefeller Foundation
(Monitoring and Evaluation), Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of
Nursing, THET, and UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative.

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Join our sister forums: CHILD2015
<http://www.hifa2015.org/child2015-forum>(child health);
HIFA-Portuguese <http://www.hifa2015.org/hifa-pt> (collaboration with WHO
ePORTUGUESe network);
HIFA-EVIPNet-French<http://www.hifa2015.org/hifa-evipnet-fr>(collaboration
with WHO Evidence for Informed Policy Network) ;
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Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance)
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